MAVEN Man Challenge #2
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
For the second Maven Man Challenge the boys take on Chris in a series of competitions. If Chris loses he’ll have to shave his head. Chris is pretty sure that won’t happen.
MAVEN Man Challenge #2 from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Tags: competition, funny, man challenge
Man Challenge #2
Posted by Alastair | Filed under Life at Maven
Yesterday we faced our second man challenge. There will be a video post soon of the competition. In the meantime you can enjoy this photo:
Tags: American Gladiators, Champion, Chris Stephens, Maven, Muscles, Ripped, Winner
That’s so Maven
Posted by Alastair | Filed under Life at Maven
You can now access our blog by typing:
thatssomaven.com
Do it.
Tags: Awesome, OMG, THATS SO MAVEN
Kyle Korver Site (in Progress)
Posted by Michael | Filed under Current Projects, Life at Maven
A quick look at what’s going on behind the scenes for Kyle’s site. Stay tuned…
THANK YOU MELINDA!!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
Today we received a care package from one of our favorite people Melinda Van Kirk. We just want to send a special thank you to her for her friendship, her support, and her candy! We would also like to take this moment to say that we love getting candy (hint).
Tags: candy, melinda, skittles
Ryan demonstrates “The Wheel”
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
In preparation for an upcoming website Maven Project Manager Ryan Kelly demonstrates the “The Wheel” shooting technique. You should probably have something handy to take notes with.
Ryan demonstrates “The Wheel” Technique from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Tags: basketball, certainly-not-funny, the wheel
Maven Man Challenge #1
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
In our constant effort to both stay in shape and procrastinate from actual work the Maven team embarked on its first official Man Challenge. Today’s challenge: Who can hold up a pair of iMac boxes the longest? The competition was fierce, tempers were high, and in the end there could be only one Champion.
MAVEN Man Challenge #1 from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Temporary Business Cards
Posted by Alastair | Filed under Life at Maven
What do you do when your printer doesn’t have enough time to do what you want? Our new business cards were suppose to have embossing, spot glossing, foil stamping, the works. Unfortunately no printer in town could get them ready in time for Chris’s weekend. So we still ordered those cards but for the weekend we decided to do up a temporary card. So by cutting a few corners we found a way to produce a good looking card in a short amount of time without spending much money. Below is a sample of how they turned out and how we did it:
Business Cards on a Budget from MAVEN on Vimeo.
S2DC and Trashketball Madness!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
Thanks to Shawn and Daniel for organizing another great night of Super Secret Design Club. We had another amazing turnout, learned a lot about each others work, and how we can all continue to progress as designers. I’m excited to see us all find better ways to collaborate, encourage one another, grow in our fields, and hopefully in the process help the city around us.
And now on to the highlight of S2DC….
Trashketball is a national pastime here at the Maven office. In this rare video appearance Jake attempts one the greatest levels of difficulty known to the Trashketball community..the double bank shot! She is a fickle lady. Many men have lost their fortunes on her charms and promises of Trashketball infamy. Can Jake be the first to overcome certain ridicule and tame this elusive minx?
Trashketball Shot of the day! from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Blue Screen Action!!!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
So yesterday we had the opportunity to use Full Sail University’s Green Screen Room (that was actually Blue) thanks to Andrew and Jake. We did some test video shots for an upcoming interactive piece on Kyle Korver’s website. The process was a blast and we’re looking forward to playing with some of the HD footage we shot. We won’t tell you exactly what we have in mind but if we can pull it off it’s gonna turn out amazing!
Tags: blue screen, green screen
Brandon Avery - “Dirty Diana”
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
I got the opportunity to go to Miami with some amazing friends and amazing people at Converse. One night upon Kyle’s request we headed to a Karaoke bar with all of about 8 people in the place. What followed was the stuff legends are made of.
After viewing this marvelous video you will be shocked to learn the following things:
1. This is an actual song with lyrics that Brandon was singing not just incoherent noises and pelvic spasms
2. Brandon was sober
3. This was Brandon’s first time doing Karaoke
4. Brandon is not in fact related to Michael Jackson
5. It is possible for someone to put so much emotion into a performance that it will make a grown man cry
Brandon Avery “Dirty Diana” Part I from MAVEN on Vimeo
Brandon Avery “Dirty Diana” Part II from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Brandon you’re the man!
And just to be truly appreciated here’s a quick comparison to the King of Pop himself.
Tags: Converse, Dirty Diana, funny, Karaoke, Michael Jackson
Real Work
Posted by Alastair | Filed under Life at Maven
When it comes down to the nitty gritty, Chris knows how to keep his cool and not get overwhelmed.
New Member to the Team
Posted by Alastair | Filed under Life at Maven
On Tuesday my sister gave birth to my second nephew. Isaac Maxell David Bryan Best made his grand entry into this world at a whopping 10lbs! I finally got a photo today so enjoy! (Yes my sister and brother in law seem to like long names, but at least Isaac has a gauge to how much trouble he’ll be in depending on how many names are said)
Alastair’s weird…
Posted by Ryan | Filed under Life at Maven
Alastair is apparently the lead singer of Taking Back Sunday. We don’t believe him.
Tags: emo
wearemaven.com….Finally!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
Today Alastair finally took a break from his normal routine of haircuts, 2 hour lunches, and lallygagging around town with his wife to actually finish up the website. Thanks tree stump you’re a real pro! We’re pretty proud of wearemaven.com actually. The range in our portfolio, and the actual work looks absolutely incredible!! I’m blown away that I get to work with such talent. The site should serve us more than well to generate some early interest in Maven. Shout outs to Shawn, Anna, Jeremy, Hendo, and JonPaul for partnering with us, we’ll do our best to keep food in your mouths, just stick to the Wendy’s dollar menu.
Special thanks to Tim for working on the browser cross compatibility. So Corey you can thank him because I think you’re the only person left who’s using internet explorer 6.
By the way, thank you for finding our blog and clicking on our cool button, bookmark this thing and check back often to be filled in on the latest happening at the Maven offices. Listen friends we take our blog very seriously and can assure you our committment is to update you with only the most vital, responsible, and professional of information. You know classy truth nuggets such as Who won the Office Olympics mattress caber toss yesterday between Bany and Ryan??
And it’s an unfortunate part of life but we expect frequent firings here at Maven. So we’ve added a “How I got fired today” section so that you may share in the hilarity that is the misfortunes of others. I can’t be sure but these seemingly unmerited firings might also have something to do with why we had to add a “How I got my feelings hurt today” section.
So to our family, friends, colleagues, and clients we couldn’t do this without you. Thanks for being here with us, and please don’t be strangers. For my own sanity call or drop in, my only exposure can’t be to these magnificent goofballs I work beside. They never join me in the 4 O’clock dance off and they eat more cheese than I’m comfortable with.
Michael get here soon, we need you in our lives!!
Thanks for reading, now forward out site to 10 friends or you’ll have bad luck for a year.
.Chris
PS
Bany if you’re reading this you can get to selling now.
Office Olympics Day 1
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
Today tensions were high in the Maven offices. Apparently a single day of unpaid work was too much for Ryan to handle. In order to release their unemployment frustrations Bany and R Kelly did what any normal person would do….they challenged one another to a Caber Toss duel. The results were the stuff legends are made of.
Caber Tossin’ Bany from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Caber Tossin’ R Kelly from MAVEN on Vimeo.
Maven vs. KK
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
Here’s the video that our new friends at Big Giant created. It’s the teaser video for the contest we helped Converse out with. All you gotta do is take what you love, put it on a shoe, make a video, and send it in!
We Are Maven…Finally!!!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Life at Maven
Well here we are! It’s been a very long and often very difficult journey to bring Maven to life. I can’t remember anything I’ve experienced that has caused me such grief and absolute joy at the same time. So as I sit here in a beautiful half empty office surrounded by great friends, and overflowing with great hope, I find myself a man who knows what it means to be truly blessed. We look forward to updating you on the many exciting things ahead of us, and invite you to share in this journey with us. For without meaningful relationships with you our family, friends, colleagues, and clients we’d lose sight of what Maven has been called to be.
.Chris
